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Tumblr Adds Audioblogging Via Phone

Feb 18th, 2009 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Featured Story, Microblogging

Blogging platform Tumblr has added a neat new feature that lets users create audio blog posts via telephone.

Enter their phone number, and messages called in to Tumblr’s toll-free number get posted to your Tumblr blog.



iPhone-Compatible Gloves For Chilly Hands

Feb 16th, 2009 | By | Category: iPod Accessories, iPods & Portable Media Players

One of the (few) things I dislike about my wonderful iPhone is trying to use it in Iowa in the wintertime. The cold temperatures here necessitate the wearing of gloves, but operating the phone’s handy touch screen is impossible without bare hands. And often, by the time I’ve peeled off my mittens and exposed my […]



FairShare Tool Tracks How Your Work Propagates Through The Web

Feb 16th, 2009 | By | Category: General

Web-wide business content tracking and programming platform company Attributor has announced the private beta version of FairShare. The program is a free service intended to help help bloggers track their content’s usage throughout the Web – and whether that usage complies with your copyright and licensing requirements. Late last year, Attributor published a report about […]



Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal

Feb 13th, 2009 | By | Category: Citizen Media, iPhone, Podcasting Law

Digital civil liberties organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation is reporting that Apple is arguing that “jailbreaking an iPhone constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA [digital millenium copyright act] violation.” These comments from Apple were filed with the U.S. Copyright Office in conjunction with the 2009 DMCA review, which happens every three years. EFF says that […]



One In Five Internet Users Watches TV Online; Doubled From 2007

Feb 13th, 2009 | By | Category: Internet TV, The New Media Update, Video

Consumer information company Knowledge Networks released a study this week that examines how the U.S. TV-viewing audience consumes and interacts with offerings on TV networks’ websites, such as blogs, games, voting, podcasts, and, of course, video. “How People Use TV’s Web Connections 2009” found that one in five (21%) Internet users ages 13 to 54 […]



Has Real-Time Citizen News Arrived?

Feb 13th, 2009 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Commentary, Video

When tragedy strikes, the 24-hour news networks are there, to bring you the catastrophe in immediate, agonizing detail. But Thursday night, when a Continental Airlines commuter plane crashed near Buffalo, NY, the major networks’ coverage didn’t come from a local affiliate camera crew dispatched to the scene. News networks, including Fox News, CNN, MSNBC and […]



New Windows Mobile Audio Workstation Offers Quad Core Processing

Feb 13th, 2009 | By | Category: Computer Hardware, Podcasting Hardware

Rain Recording has announced the latest edition to their LiveBook Diablo mobile audio workstation series. The new LiveBook Diablo quad core audio notebook claims “true desktop level performance” and is outfitted Intel’s Core 2 Quad mobile processors, dual high performance hard drives and up to 8 gigabytes of RAM. LiveBook Diablo is comprised of “high […]



YouTube Goes Offline: Adds CC Licensing, Free and Paid Downloads

Feb 12th, 2009 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts

Google video site YouTube today announced a number of new options for content creators and consumers who want to “take their videos offline.” The site has entered into working arrangements with several “partners” to allow sharing their videos “universally” and away from an Internet connection. Citing an interest among some of their content creators to […]



Should Howard Stern Do a Podcast?

Feb 12th, 2009 | By | Category: General, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting

Talk throughout the business world seems certain that satellite radio behemoth XM/Sirius filing for bankruptcy in the coming days. If this indeed comes to pass, what’s to become of those big-name, big money radio personalities who stand to lose a hefty salary? Howard Stern left terrestrial radio (and an estimated 12 million listeners) for satellite, […]



Lijit Forges New Content Networks Service

Feb 11th, 2009 | By | Category: General, The New Media Update

Blog search widget Lijit has launched a new Content Networks service to let content publishers band together and create a network. Lijit is an interesting and useful search tool in that, when installed on your website, readers can search not just for relevant blog posts, but also for other related things you’ve bookmarked, put on […]